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Jun 12 • 4 tweets • 4 min read
Okay, let's break this down shall we. Simply put it is nonsense. The first flight includes Afghans, there are also Albanians, Syrians etc slated for removal. So in no way is the #RwandaMigrationPlan about just "Africans" as suggested here. 1/ ImageImage
Rwanda is also not a safe country where people are protected and welcomed. It has a litany of human rights abuses, ongoing at the moment rather than historic. 2/
amnesty.org/en/location/af…. ImageImageImage
Nor, by any stretch of the imagination, could it be classed as a place where refugees live "dignified" lives and "develop" themselves when they are forced into poverty and suffer abuses and attacks. 3/

telegraph.co.uk/global-health/… ImageImageImageImage
No amount of public relations spin can change the fact that the Rwanda plan will see people forcibly transported thousands of miles from anywhere they feel safe or have connections, and leave them destitute and at risk. 4/
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Jun 14
Yeah lads, spending half a mill to deport eight people is really going to "disrupt" gangs who have already brought them here. Do you think the gangs give a damn? Particularly as by shipping people to Rwanda the government makes them even more vulnerable to traffickers #r4today Image
Anyone using the whole it's to "save lives" or it "breaks the business model of gangs" lines about the #RwandaMigrationPlan is either lying or doesn't know/understand it enough to comment on it. The outcome of this policy is that it will increase trafficking and loss of life.
Most people who cross the channel seek asylum, 98%, and more than 3/4s receive it. So we're talking about "genuine refugees" no matter what pundits like to claim. That means they are guaranteed the right to enter a country by any means without penalty under international law.
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Jun 13
Not shocked by the Rwanda appeal decision, but that doesn't mean it makes sense. That the policy is to be used on those who come to UK via irregular means seems in direct conflict with Article 31 of the refugee convention, prohibiting penalising asylum seekers for manner of entry
That UK already takes Rwanda refugees, let alone the war on its border with DRC, vast evidence of human rights abuses and track record of asylum seekers sent there ending up in third countries would appear to put the policy in direct conflict with principle of non-refoulement.
And that's just for starters. Friday's and today's rulings don't just put those facing deportation at risk, they appear to show a lack of consideration for two key pillars of international refugee law, a move which risks undermining the whole international refugee regime.
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Jun 13
Everyone waiting for the Judge to get to the point and announce the decision on the Rwanda appeal
Legal question, can the flight leave if the judge is still running through their explanation and hasn't reached a verdict? If not, at this rate we may have seen the Rwanda plan put on hold for the foreseeable.
Bugger!! This is not good.
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Jun 9
Two BIG issues facing those who believe in migrants' rights right now.
1) The Home Office has something of a record of claiming that they until an appeal has gone through they can continue with a policy, even if deemed unlawful, and the Supreme Court has a record of.... 1/5
saying it isn't the role of the courts to interfere in political policy. So even if legal cases against the Rwanda plan are successful it still isn't over. 2/5
2) The Rwanda plan is only one of a huge number of things which the government is doing which undermine the rights of asylum seekers and other migrants. If/when it fails they'll just announce something else. They are very good at keeping everyone in "reactive mode". 3/5
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Jun 9
Long thread: On the 14th June the government claims that it will start forcibly deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda. Let's be brutally honest here, the plan only appeals to imbeciles and racists. Apply any humanity or sense to it and you see how terrible it is. 1/ #r4today
It's facing multiple legal challenges. Those challenges are likely to succeed. Not because of "lefty lawyers", but because it violates multiple laws. If courts find it illegal it won't be because of "do-gooders" it'll be because the Home Office is, yet again, breaking the law. 3/
The Home Office's own statistics show that 98% of those crossing the channel seek asylum and more than three quarters receive it. So they know they are talking about asylum seekers whose rights, including to use irregular means of entry, are legally protected. 4/
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Jun 8
Of the many deeply disgusting and inhumane anti-immigration policies this government has pushed, the Rwanda plan is potentially the worst. It's a policy designed to be cruel, designed to hurt people. It needs to be stopped. #RwandaMigrationPlan
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No-one should be forcibly transported to Rwanda, a country with a track record of human rights abuses, but particularly children. No matter what claims the @ukhomeoffice may make, incorrect age assessments will inevitably see under 18's shipped off.

Number of age disputes rose from an average of 840 per year to more than 2500 in 2021. During a similar period outcomes shifted a higher proportion being assessed as children, to the majority being treated as adults. It's not statistically likely such a swing happens by chance.
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